Excerpt from On Patriotism: The Condition, Prospects, and Duties of the American People, a Sermon Delivered on Fast Day at Church Green, Boston Psalm cxxii. 2, 7, and 8 verses. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, peace be within thee. And Matthew xxiii.37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! I Cannot help noticing, as I pass, this extraordinary language of Christ. Poor, neglected, unknown, a simple teacher by the way-sides of Judea, with no position in worldly eyes; yet if he had been a departing king, mourning over his people, he could not have spoken more loftily. Is there not some strange, unborrowed, supernal majesty in this appeal? But it is not this of which I am to speak now, or for which I have drawn my text from sacred records, several hundred years apart. It is rather to point out the abiding naturalness and beauty of the sentiment of patriotism. For thus it is, that from age to age are forever echoing, words of every language, which proclaim how dear is men's native land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.